Berlioz: Lelio, ou Le retour a la vie & Romeo et Juliette / Fournet, Wallenstein

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Label
Cameo Classics
Release Date
June 7, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERLIOZ, HECTOR
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      London Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Chorus, Bbc Symphony
    • PERFORMER
      Nemorin, Senechal, Lefort, Evans, Soames, Ward
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 07, 2019
    • UPC
      5020926911025
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CC9110
    • LABEL
      Cameo Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Dieu! je vis encore (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Raymond Nemorin

    2. Le Pecheur, "Ballade de Goethe" - L'onde frémit (Horatio, Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michel Sénéchal, Raymond Nemorin

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    3. Étrange persistance d'un souvenir! (Lélio) - Froid de la mort (Chorus of the Shades)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    4. O Shakespeare! Shakespeare! (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Raymond Nemorin

    5. Brigand's Song: J'aurais cent ans à vivre encore (Captain, Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Bernard Lefort

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    6. Comme mon esprit flotte incertain! (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Raymond Nemorin

    7. Song of Bliss: Ô mon bonheur, ma vie

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Michel Sénéchal

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    8. Oh! que ne puis-je la trouver (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Raymond Nemorin

    9. Aeolian Harp: Recollections

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    10. Allons! (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Raymond Nemorin

    11. Fantasia on Shakespeare's The Tempest - Miranda! Miranda! (Chorus of the Spirits of the Air)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Jean Fournet

    12. Assez pour aujord'hui (Lélio)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Performer: Michel Sénéchal

    13. Part I: Introduction: Combats - Tumulte - Intervention du Prince

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    14. Part I: Prologue: Choral Recitative: D'anciennes haines endormies (Mezzo-soprano, Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Nancy Evans

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    15. Part I: Prologue: Strophes: Premiers transports que nui n'oubllet (Mezzo-soprano)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Nancy Evans

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    16. Part I: Prologue: Recitative and Scherzetto: Bientôt de Roméo la pâle rêverie (Tenor, Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rene Soames

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    17. Part II: Roméo Seul - Tristesse - Bruit lointain de bal et de concert - Grande Fête chez Capulet

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    18. Part II: Nuit sereine - Scène d’amour: Ohé! Capulets, bonsoir! (Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    19. Part II: Scherzo: La Reine Mab, ou la Fée des songes

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    20. Part III: Convoi funèbre de Juliette - Jetez des fleurs pour la vierge expirée! (Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    21. Part III: Roméo au Tombeau des Capulets: Invocation - Réveil de Juliette

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    22. Part III: Finale: La foule accourt au cimetière - Quoi! Roméo de retour! Roméo! (Chorus, Friar Laurence)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Ward

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein

    23. Part III: Finale: Serment de réconciliation (Friar Laurence, Chorus)

      Composer: Hector Berlioz

      Ensemble: BBC Chorus, BBC Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: David Ward

      Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein


Le retour à la vie - this extraordinary work, half-literary, half-musical reflected much of the thoughts and ideas also found in his letters of the time, using music that was largely written earlier in Paris. The genesis of the work was yet another love-affair gone wrong. The six musical numbers of Lélio are wholly diverse in subject and treatment, yet a sense of order is imposed by the literary format. It is a unique assemblage, there is nothing else quite like it in all musical history. Roméo et Juliette is counted third among Berlioz’s 4 symphonies. Another uniquely constructed work, it moves away from the purely symphonic towards the realm of opera. But Berlioz keeps the formal structure of a symphony firmly in his mind: the three principal instrumental sections – Fete chez Capulet, Scene d’amour, and La reine Mab – making a first movement, slow movement and scherzo encircled by elaborate vocal sections to begin and end.